Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever